skin to skin - can it make baby frantic for milk?

[smk84]

hi , i have done a few hours of skin to skin with my 17do today, and it seemed to have 2 effects - the first was to make 2 feeds very calm, and i thought my less productive breast might be making a bit more, then after sleeping on me for a while, he woke for a 10 min feed which was fine. After another little sleep he woke up and was frantically sucking, not much was coming and he was getting frustrated and pulling off. Do you think this could have been because of the skin to skin (he only normally behaves like this when he cluster feeds inthe evenings). Thanks in advance.

snk84, skin to skin is a way babies are 'hard wired' to be cared for - for most of human existence, this was the only effective, warm and safe 'place' for a baby to be, and we can infer from what the higher primates do, it's a totally normal mammalian as well as human interaction.

Your baby does not know he is in the little patch of time where we give this a name to distinguish it from other ways of caring for babies :)

The frantic sucking is on the normal spectrum for a young baby. Nothing you have done will have 'caused' it. He may have seemed frustrated but that's more likely to be because sometimes, babies take a while when they are very young to co-ordinate sucking, swallowing, comfy position, on every occasion.